Job 9:1

Job: How Can I Contend with God? · Job 9:1–35

Translations

Modern

Then Job answered:

Traditional

Then Job answered and said,

Literal

And Job answered and said,

Latin

Et respondens Job, ait:

Original

Hebrew

English

Then Job answered:

Notes

Job answered Bildad by describing God's universal and legal power. His speech resembles a complex legal case.

It includes:

A summons and response (9:3, 14–16, 19b, 32).
The risk of proving himself guilty (9:20).
A "mediator" (9:33–34).
A question of accusation (9:12).
A legal sentence (9:22).
A declaration of guilt (9:28–30).

Events

Job's Trialc. 1650 BC

People

Job: A righteous man who endured great suffering

Glossary

Topics

Job: A Man Who Lived in Uz: Complaints of, and Replies by his Three Friends To Murmuring: Job Philosophy: Philosophical Inductions and Deductions Relating to God and his Providence